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Synonyms for wasteland

Grammar : Noun
Spell : weyst-land
Phonetic Transcription : ˈweɪstˌlænd

Définition of wasteland

Origin :
  • 1887, from waste (adj.) + land (n.).
  • noun wilderness
Example sentences :
  • Help was not always available, and there could be no waste movements in a wasteland.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
  • Our world of Rajj is a wasteland where once we and our fellows lived.
  • Extract from : « Brood of the Dark Moon » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • Hours later he spotted the caravan in the immensity of sand and wasteland.
  • Extract from : « Home is Where You Left It » by Adam Chase
  • Nothing, for as far as the eye could see there was only wasteland.
  • Extract from : « Dave Dawson at Casablanca » by Robert Sydney Bowen
  • The Confederate force was already starting withdrawal, battery by battery, as the wasteland of the fire lighted them on their way.
  • Extract from : « Ride Proud, Rebel! » by Andre Alice Norton
  • They walked for two hours, the Disan setting a cruel pace, before they reached a wasteland of jumbled rock.
  • Extract from : « Planet of the Damned » by Harry Harrison
  • He swung his arm in a wide circle, indicating a wasteland of sand that spread as far as the eyes could see.
  • Extract from : « Stand by for Mars! » by Carey Rockwell
  • Our whole Northern Hemisphere, where our greatest nations were, was devastated; much of it is wasteland to this day.
  • Extract from : « Uller Uprising » by Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
  • Victorious feudal lords induced farmers to come to their territory and to cultivate the wasteland.
  • Extract from : « A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] » by Wolfram Eberhard
  • Out of the cramped ships they came, to bound in freedom and fresh breathable air across the wasteland.
  • Extract from : « And Then the Town Took Off » by Richard Wilson

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